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A bilingual site is not a translated site

Running an English layout through a translator gives you Arabic words inside an English shape — cramped line height, mirrored icons pointing the wrong way, and buttons that read backwards.
A real bilingual build flips direction at the layout level: RTL grids, Arabic typefaces chosen for screen, numerals and dates in the right format, and copy written twice rather than translated once.
The payoff is trust. A Saudi customer can tell in three seconds whether a site was made for them or exported to them.